Child components of ActionBar not accessibility friendly.

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While trying to create UI automated tests with Appium we've noticed that the child components of ActionBar, such as ActionItem and NavigationButton don't have a property for AutomationText. When running UiAutomatorViewer, these objects are marked as NAF (Not Accessibility Friendly). This prevents us from allowing any accessibility features for the navigation buttons that we have in our app, as well as not allowing UI automation to be possible for those features. Is it possible to have the AutomationText property added to the child components of ActionBar? If not, what are some other UI automation strategies to handle situations like these?

Which platform(s) does your issue occur on?

Only confirmed for Android.

Please provide the following version numbers that your issue occurs with:

• CLI: 2.5.0
• Cross-platform modules: 2.5.1
• Runtime(s): Android: 2.5.0

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Start by reproducing the Android behavior with Appium and UiAutomatorViewer, focusing on ActionBar children such as ActionItem and NavigationButton. Trace where AutomationText is exposed for these components and verify how the Android accessibility metadata is generated. Done means the child components expose usable AutomationText and are no longer marked NAF for accessibility and UI automation.